India to set up new academy for drug regulators
It will be operational next year in Noida, near New Delhi
India is establishing a new academy for drug regulators, with the aim of tackling a shortage of such professionals in the country, said Dr Gyanendra Nath Singh, Drugs Controller General of India.
The new institution will be operating by 2016 in Noida, near New DelhI, and is part of central government’s US$300m plan to strengthen the medicine regulatory process, financing new laboratories across the country.
'We have become the pharmacy of the world and also supply [medical] machines to over 200 countries,' he said. 'We want to have a continuous skill development because it is a very dynamic science where product or the practices become obsolete very fast.'